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    The South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family. It...
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    Swamphen (redirect from Porphyrio)
    Philippine swamphen, Porphyrio pulverulentus Australasian swamphen, Porphyrio melanotus South Island takahē, Porphyrio hochstetteri Allen's gallinule, also...
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    Pacific islands Lord Howe swamphen, Porphyrio albus † North Island takahē, Porphyrio mantelli † Takahē, Porphyrio hochstetteri Samoan woodhen, Gallinula pacifica...
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    The North Island takahē (Māori: moho) (Porphyrio mantelli) is an extinct species of flightless swamphen that was native to the North Island of New Zealand...
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    "Lead exposure in free-ranging Kea (Nestor Notabilis), Takahe (Porphyrio Hochstetteri) and Australasian Harriers (Circus Approximans) in New Zealand"...
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    three species of small-massed rails, Gallirallus philippensis, Porphyrio porphyrio, and Porzana tabuensis, exhibit a persistently high ability to disperse...
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    1956, but rediscovered in 2017 in El Tamá National Park. Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri), assumed extinct in 1898 but found again in 1948. Utila chachalaca...
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    Hispaniola Extinct South Island takahē Porphyrio hochstetteri South Island, New Zealand Endangered North Island takahē Porphyrio mantelli North Island, New Zealand...
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    order, the rails, reaches their largest size in the bulky takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) of New Zealand, an endangered species that can weigh up to 4.2 kg...
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    birds, such as the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) and the takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri), have been enough to keep those species extant to the present....
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    Zealand dabchick (Poliocephalus rufopectus) Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) Pūkeko (Porphyrio porphyrio) North Island fantail (Piwakawaka) (Rhipidura fulginosa...
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    (Notiomystis cincta) (30 released 2005-02-17) Takahē, South Island (Porphyrio hochstetteri) (two released 2011-01-28) Tomtit, North Island (miromiro) (Petroica...
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    Anas chlorotis), whitehead (pōpokotea, Mohoua albicilla), takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri), little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii), stitchbird (hihi, Notiomystis...
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    Collar, Nigel; Sharpe, Christopher J. (2020). "South Island Takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), version 1.0". Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology,...
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    Adult takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) feeding a chick...
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    species to the genus Porphyrio, as P. (Notornis) caerulescens, indicating an affinity with the takahē (now called Porphyrio hochstetteri, then also referred...
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    flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum), and the takahē (Notornis hochstetteri, now Porphyrio hochstetteri ). Meyer is commemorated in the scientific name of a species...
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    The white swamphen (Porphyrio albus), also known as the Lord Howe swamphen, Lord Howe gallinule or white gallinule, is an extinct species of rail which...
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    "Lead exposure in free-ranging Kea (Nestor Notabilis), Takahe (Porphyrio Hochstetteri) and Australasian Harriers (Circus Approximans) in New Zealand"...
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    Island takahē Porphyrio mantelli X South Island takahē Porphyrio hochstetteri B Australasian swamphen or pūkeko (Māori: pūkeko) Porphyrio melanotus I I...
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    hochstetteri, is named after Ferdinand. Several other species bear his name in their scientific names, including the Takahē, Porphyrio hochstetteri,...
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  • his part in the captive breeding of newly re-discovered takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) in the 1950s. His efforts live on as Pukaha / Mount Bruce National...
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    Boast, Alexander P. (2019). "A Holocene fossil South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) in a high-altitude north-west Nelson cave". Notornis. 66: 34–36...
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    2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-13. BirdLife International (2012). "Porphyrio hochstetteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. IUCN. Archived...
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  • (tutukiwi), Coenocorypha iredalei) EX South Island takahē (takahē), Porphyrio hochstetteri VU Southern brown kiwi (tokoeka), Apteryx australis VU Spotted shag...
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  • takahe Porphyrio mantelli (Owen, 1848) (E) 97 South Island takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri (Meyer, AB, 1883) 98 Ocellated crake Micropygia schomburgkii (Schomburgk...
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    Hypotaenidia sylvestris Laterallus levraudi Laterallus tuerosi Porphyrio hochstetteri Rallus semiplumbeus Rallus wetmorei Sarothrura watersi Zapornia...
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    endangered birds, leading to successes with South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) in the 1950s. In 1962, work began on a facility at Mt Bruce to...
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